Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Book PartsWhat would an anatomy of the book look like? There is the main text, of course, the file that the author proudly submits to their publisher. But around this, hemming it in on the page or enclosing it at the front and back of...
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Art and Pornography: Philosophical EssaysArt and Pornography presents a series of essays which investigate the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature, and explores the distinction, if there is any, between pornography and erotic art. Is there any overlap between art and pornography, or...
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The Complete Euripides: Volume IV: Bacchae and Other PlaysCollected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal, a powerful examination of the horror and beauty of Dionysiac ecstasy; Herakles, translated by Tom Sleigh and Christian Wolff, a violent...
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Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working ClassFor over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated...
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The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1941-1967, I Dream a WorldFebruary 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American writer. The second volume in this masterful...
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The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New EpilogueFrank Kermode is one of our most distinguished critics of English literature. Here, he contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis. Prompted by the approach of the millennium,...
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Charlotte TempleThe sentimental novels of the early national period were considered a danger to society and were criticized for the corrupting influence they had on the minds of their mostly young and female audience. They told tales of vice and intrigue that purported to be...
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Henry VIII and His Six Wives: Level 2: 700-Word VocabularyThis award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during,...
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Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal: Selected Early WritingsIn their collaborative early writings, the Brontës created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories, poems, and plays. Together they invented characters based on heroes and writers such as Wellington, Napoleon, Scott, and Byron, whose...
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AnabasisThis internationally famous poem by the 1960 Nobel laureate was introduced to English-language readers in this translation by T. S. Eliot. In this definitive edition, French and English texts appear on facing pages. Preface by T. S. Eliot.Author: St John PersePublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 10/21/1970Pages:...
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Fire: From "A Journal of Love" the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937In this "erotically charged"(Publishers Weekly) diary that picks up where Incest left off, Nin chronicles a restless search for fulfillment that leads her to New York City-"that brilliant giant toy" -then back to Paris and Henry, and eventually into the arms of a passionate...
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The Thirty-Nine StepsFamous as the basis for several films, including the brilliant 1935 version directed by Alfred Hitchcock, The Thirty-Nine Steps is a classic of early twentieth-century popular literature Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with...
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Reveries of the Solitary WalkerTen meditations written in the two years before Rousseau's death in 1778 provide an excellent introduction to the thinker's complex world, expressing in its full force the agony of isolation and alienation For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of...
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BeowulfThe greatest surviving Old English poem rendered into modern prose Beowulf stands at the head of English literature; a poem of historical interest and epic scope. Although the first manuscript of Beowulf dates from around the year 1000 CE, it is thought that the...
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A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A. E. HousmanA wonderful collection from one of England's best-loved poetsOne of the most admired poets of his day, A.E. Housman wrote poems that conjure a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss. Expressed in simple rhythms, they show a fine...
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Novel Without a Name"Reminiscent of All Quiet on Western Front and The Red Badge of Courage. . . . A breathtakingly original work.--San Francisco Chronicle Twenty-eight-year-old Quan has been fighting for the Communist cause in North Vietnam for a decade. Filled with idealism and hope when he...
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Fante: A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking and SurvivingNo two lives could have been more different, yet similar in a few essential ways than John and Dan Fante′s. As father and son, John and Dan Fante were prone to fights, resentment and extended periods of silence. As men, they were damaged by...
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The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts"A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world. Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore through the curtain. The world opened before the knight-errant in all the comical nakedness of its prose."In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art...
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Against the Uprooted Word: Giving Language Time in Transatlantic RomanticismIn this revisionist account of romantic-era poetry and language philosophy, Tristram Wolff recovers vibrant ways of thinking language and nature together. Wolff argues that well-known writers including Phillis Wheatley Peters, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Henry David Thoreau offer a radical chronopolitics in reaction...
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Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later LifeAuthor: Scott HerringPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 12/13/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.70w x 0.90dISBN: 9780231205450
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